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Started off on fairly interestingly, then devolved into a completely generic rom-com. The idea that true (or passing) love cures mental illness was a joke. (The premise worked better in the far superior A Beautiful Mind, where the main character at least reasoned his way to a more believable kind of sanity and stability, even if that's not really what happened to the real person.)

I do not get all the fuss over this movie. Jennifer Lawrence was good but I was disappointed it had such a pat, Hollywood ending that wrapped up these troubled characters with a big red bow.

Don't believe the hype: This is just standard Hollywood fluff.

So, it seems the writer-turned-director David Goyer realized he had a crappy script, lame plot, and badly cast villains this go-round and turned to two young hotties - Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds -- to keep us distracted from how awful the film really is. And for me, it almost worked. Well, Jessica does nothing for me, but Reynolds, who got super buff and shows if off nicely in several scenes, was like Han Solo riding in to save the day with his (mostly) funny one-liners. Every time he was on screen, the movie was watchable. When he wasn't, I was waiting for him to come back on. He totally steals the film.

And what happened to Parker Posey & Natasha Lyonne? They are both looking haggard and awful these days.

The Dracula, Dominic Purcell, is just wrong, wrong, wrong. His beefy, Army grunt look is all wrong, his clothes ridiculous and the fights are disappointing. If he's so invincible, why does he run away from Blade when they first meet? Very poor villain behavior!

Oh, and I haven't mentioned Wesley Snipes yet. He makes it through with a few shreds of dignity left, but given his feud with the director, that's it for him and Blade. Which is probably a good thing, after this film. But I'd totally see a Nightstalker spin-off. Or hell, anything else with Reynolds.